Whether or not you love Valentine’s Day or reject it as another commercially driven, marketing opportunity- the symbols, verses, cards and candy bring relationships to mind. As such, an unexpected but valuable way to reframe Valentine’s Day is as a day to reconsider your...

A stereotype is a preconceived, fixed notion, especially about a person or group of people.

Most of us are familiar with the ongoing danger of negative stereotyping. Over centuries, across nations and in communities, tribes and families, negative stereotyping casts people as unacceptable, disposable, evil...

Many couples regardless of how many years they are married, complain about reduced sexual desire and the lack of expressed sexual interest in their relationship. While the old stereotypes of men and women used to perpetuate the assumption that it was man complaining about...

There are still more than a few good men. The focus lately, however, is not on them. It is on the growing number of known, talented, and in some cases respected men who have been accused of sexual harassment, coercion, and rape.

When you are depressed, the last thing you may want to do is exercise.

Most people are aware that research has identified exercise as a key factor in reducing depression. Given the despair, lethargy, self-doubt, exhaustion, and shame experienced with depression, however, the suggestion to...

While most sixteen year olds want to be eighteen, how many 45 year olds want to be 65?

Research has increasingly found happiness to be a function of many dimensions. One of them happens to be age; but it is more complicated than we might think. The progression in age does not make us more happy or unhappy in a linear way.

The U-Bend of Happiness

The surprising finding is that people increase in happiness until around...

The Vegas Shooting that took the lives of 59 people and wounded 527 others is the deadliest shooting incident in modern American history. It is a tragic and violent event.

As we shockingly take stock of this horrific event, we once again dare to imagine the pain of the families, the suffering of those wounded and the echoes of fear and horror triggered in so many who have faced violence and tragedy. In the face of such...